Hello All!
I’m a new glider. I know push notifications have been deprecated. I’m developing an app where i need notification reminders that get triggered automatically based on date and time and also upon manual triggers like when a manager sends an in app message to a team member(or when the team member replies back).
I saw there is Twilio as an option for sending watsapp messages. But can twilio be used for(is worth for) reminder notifications/ push notifications ? Because it seems it is for B2C apps and maybe not for internal tools because the watsapp template options all look like as if they are made for marketing/managing customer messages
Please guide!
Fellow Glider!
AK
You can also consider Slack for notification purposes
I usually just resort to email/Slack notifications. I guess it’s just a case of knowing what your end users usually use amongst email/Slack/WhatsApp/SMS to use the right service.
Some notes with Twilio, you would have to enable messaging from the Twilio dashboard for your country, and pass through regulations in some certain countries to use SMS.
I’ve been using a webhook with a custom script to trigger silent notifications on internal apps, updating user-specific values in Glide to show in-app alerts without needing real push notifications.
Can you explain more about your approach? How do you “trigger silent notifications” and “update user-specific values”?
I ended up using sms.to to send push-like messages when email felt too slow. It’s easy to trigger with a webhook and worked well for time-sensitive alerts to the team. I just had to be mindful of formatting the message clearly since there’s no rich text, but overall it got the job done for now.